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• Pima County Needs Trail Builders

  25-06-2019 23:41
  The Pima County Natural Resources, Parks and Recreation department is asking volunteers to help build 2.5 miles of trails.The extension will extend the Painted Hills Trails Park, as well as restoring the neighboring Enchanted Hills trail system, according to a release.
  Both trails abut the Tucson Mountain Park on the western fringe of Tucson, with the newly-revitalized Painted Hills system featuring four miles of trails, while Enchanted Hills will have seven miles.…
  
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• The Latest: Lawyer for ex-chief’s wife says case convoluted

  25-06-2019 23:12
  HONOLULU (AP) — The Latest on closing arguments in a corruption trial in Hawaii (all times local):
  3 p.m.
  An attorney representing an ex-Honolulu prosecutor accused of conspiring with her police chief husband to frame her uncle says the case against the couple is complicated and convoluted.
  Defense attorney Cynthia Kagiwada says in her closing arguments Tuesday that prosecutors didn’t fulfill promises to present evidence that Katherine and Louis Kealoha conspired to frame Gerard Puan
  
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• Timberwolves hire Pablo Prigioni as assistant coach

  25-06-2019 22:32
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Timberwolves have hired Pablo Prigioni as an assistant coach, after the native of Argentina spent last season on staff with the Brooklyn Nets.
  Prigioni spent the majority of his 20-year playing career in the Spanish League. He became the NBA’s oldest rookie at age 35 in the 2012-13 season with the New York Knicks, spending four years in the league until returning overseas. Prigioni won a bronze medal with the Argentine national team at the Olympics in
  
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• Guatemala ready for ‘vote-by-vote election recount

  25-06-2019 22:29
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Guatemalan officials say they will begin on Wednesday a “vote-by-vote” recount of the country’s June 16 general election results.
  Political party leaders say they reached an agreement with election officials to review the disputed vote tallies.
  Elmer Palencia of the Valor political party tells reporters: “Have confidence that we’re going to check vote-by-vote … to be able to give legal certainty of the results.”
  Guatemala’
  
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• Ospina returns for Copa America quarterfinals

  25-06-2019 22:26
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Colombia goalkeeper David Ospina has returned from his home country for the Copa America quarterfinal match against Chile on Friday.
  The Colombian soccer federation confirmed Tuesday that Ospina has already joined his teammates in Sao Paulo.
  Colombian media said the goalkeeper had traveled Friday to be with a family member who is ill.
  Ospina is expected to train with Colombia later at the Pacaembu Stadium.
  The goalkeeper played in Colombia’s 1-0 win against Qata
  
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• The Latest: Investigator grilled in case against Navy SEAL

  25-06-2019 22:25
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Latest on the trial of a decorated Navy SEAL charged with killing an Islamic State prisoner in his care (all times local):
  1:25 p.m.
  A lawyer for a decorated Navy SEAL charged with war crimes accused the lead investigator of prejudging the case before he gathered evidence.
  Attorney Marc Mukasey said Tuesday that a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service violated standard practices while investigating Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher.
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• American who helped Islamic State asks for leniency

  25-06-2019 22:25
  NEW YORK (AP) — An American woman who helped in online recruitment of Islamic State fighters is seeking leniency in her New York terrorism case over the objections of prosecutors who say she’s still a threat.
  Defense attorneys for Sinmyah Amera Caesar argued at a sentencing hearing on Tuesday in a federal court in New York City that she’s a lost soul who should get a term of time served — about two years.
  Prosecutors told a judge that Caesar burned them by secretly gettin
  
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• Real Madrid to have women’s team from 2020-21 season

  25-06-2019 22:21
  MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid will have a women’s team from the 2020-21 season.
  The club says it has reached an agreement to take over Deportivo Tacon, which was playing in the second tier in Spain.
  Madrid was one of the few top clubs in Europe without a women’s side. Barcelona and Atletico Madrid already field a women’s team.
  Real Madrid said Tuesday its board of directors agreed “to propose a merger through absorption of the women’s football club” of Depor
  
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• PG&E’s lenders offer billions, new name to rebrand utility

  25-06-2019 22:17
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric’s key lenders have offered a $30 billion plan to pull the utility out of bankruptcy and give the tarnished company a new name.
  The Sacramento Bee reports the proposal filed Tuesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court would set aside up to $18 billion of the $30 billion to pay claims on the 2017 and 2018 wildfires caused by PG&E equipment.
  The plan offered by PG&E’s leading bondholders would compete with an alternative that the n
  
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• University president apologizes for eugenics research

  25-06-2019 22:14
  BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The outgoing president of the University of Vermont is apologizing for the school’s involvement in eugenics research in the 1920s and 1930s that helped lead to sterilizations.
  President Thomas Sullivan released a statement on Friday, calling it “unethical and regrettable.”
  Last year the university decided to remove a former school president’s name from the library because of his support of the Eugenics Survey of Vermont and its leader, a UVM p
  
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• Texas man who threatened Trump from prison gets 37 months

  25-06-2019 22:10
  LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A Texas man who threatened President Donald Trump from a Louisiana prison has been sentenced to just over three years in federal prison.
  Prosecutors say 24-year-old Buddy Keith Myers of Gibbs, Texas, was sentenced Monday for threatening the president. He’d faced up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
  Myers pleaded guilty Aug. 28.
  A statement filed with his plea says he told investigators the threats were serious. It says he wrote letters in 2018, thr
  
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• Bengals’ Williams likely out for year after shoulder surgery

  25-06-2019 22:09
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Bengals rookie offensive tackle Jonah Williams is expected to miss the season after surgery for a torn labrum in his left shoulder.
  The team said in a statement that Williams is expected to make a full recovery. He was injured at a practice earlier this month.
  The Bengals drafted Williams at No. 11 overall in April, looking to upgrade an offensive line that has been a longstanding problem. They also took guard Michael Jordan in the fourth round and drafted center Billy Pr
  
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• Cardi B pleads not guilty to new charges in strip club brawl

  25-06-2019 22:06
  NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy-winning rapper Cardi B has been arraigned on new felony charges in connection with a fight last year at a New York City strip club.
  The rapper was dressed in a dark blue pantsuit with her hair tinted blue. She pleaded not guilty in state court Tuesday to attempted assault and various lesser charges.
  Police say Cardi B, whose real name is Belcalis Almanzar, and her entourage were at the club when she argued with a bartender.
  They say a fight broke out in which chairs,
  
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• Lawsuit says North Dakota laws force abortion doctors to lie

  25-06-2019 22:02
  FARGO, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s sole abortion clinic is suing over two state laws it believes tells doctors to lie, including one measure passed this year requiring physicians to tell women that they may reverse a so-called medication abortion if they have second thoughts.
  The federal complaint by the Red River Women’s Clinic and others also targets a law requiring doctors to tell patients that abortion terminates “the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human bei
  
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• Dallas-bound flight makes safe emergency landing in Reno

  25-06-2019 22:02
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — An American Airlines flight heading to Dallas-Fort Worth returned to Reno shortly after takeoff and made a safe emergency landing after issues with the landing gear and a tire.
  American Airlines says Flight 1266 took off from Reno-Tahoe International Airport around 1 a.m. Tuesday and circled the airport for about an hour to burn off fuel before landing safely about 2:30 a.m.
  No injuries were reported on the plane carrying 169 passengers and crew members.
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• North Dakota’s abortion clinic sues over 2 laws, including demand to tell women they may reverse medication abortion

  25-06-2019 22:01
  FARGO, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s abortion clinic sues over 2 laws, including demand to tell women they may reverse medication abortion.
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• Wild extend qualifying offers to Donato, Eriksson Ek, Fiala

  25-06-2019 21:55
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Wild have extended qualifying offers to seven players eligible to become restricted free agents, including forwards Ryan Donato, Joel Eriksson Ek and Kevin Fiala to retain the rights to three key pieces of their young core.
  The moves were made Tuesday, as expected. Four players were not tendered an offer, including forward Pontus Aberg, making him an unrestricted free agent when the market opens Monday.
  The Wild also named recently retired center Matt H
  
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• APNewsBreak: Lawsuit claims Utah hotel exploited immigrants

  25-06-2019 21:47
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The luxury Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City is accused in a lawsuit of luring workers from the Philippines to a program that promised training and cultural immersion but instead forced them to work long hours doing menial jobs for low pay.
  Four workers represented by the Asian Americans Advancing Justice organization alleged in the lawsuit filed Tuesday that the hotel misused a type of visa similar to an internship program and instead treated participants like no
  
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• Trump awards highest military honor to Iraq veteran

  25-06-2019 21:44
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is awarding the nation’s highest military honor to an Iraq veteran who cleared an insurgent strongpoint and allowed members of his platoon to move to safety.
  The president is presenting the Medal of Honor to former Army Staff Sgt. David G. Bellavia of Lyndonville, New York.
  Bellavia was leading a squad in support of Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah in November 2004. The White House says that after Bellavia helped his platoon escape fire, he
  
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• Moroccan women press to legalize abortion amid pending bill

  25-06-2019 21:39
  PARIS (AP) — It was a small demonstration on a big topic for some Moroccan women trying to make some abortions legal.
  Two dozen activists gathered in front of the Muslim kingdom’s parliament on Tuesday to press lawmakers to legalize abortion in extreme cases. A row of naked dolls on the ground symbolized the fate of children born from unintended pregnancies.
  One sign read: “My mother is 15 years old. My father is a rapist.”
  Morocco has had a law in the making since 2016 t
  
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• Father-daughter border drownings highlight migrants’ perils

  25-06-2019 21:38
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The man and his 23-month-old daughter lie face down in shallow water along the Matamoros, Mexico, bank of the Rio Grande across from Brownsville, Texas.
  His black shirt is hiked up his chest with the girl’s head tucked inside, and her arm draped around his neck suggesting she clung to him in her final moments.
  The searing photograph this week of the two drowned migrants at the border highlights the perils faced by the surge of mostly Central Americans fleeing viole
  
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• Eyeing the future, Orioles introduce No. 1 pick Rutschman

  25-06-2019 21:38
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles interrupted their miserable 2019 season to introduce a sliver of hope for the future: Adley Rutschman, the top overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft.
  Rutschman sat alongside general manager Mike Elias during a news conference Tuesday at Camden Yards before the Orioles were to face the San Diego Padres, whose most notable player, Manny Machado, was nabbed by Baltimore with the third selection in the 2010 draft.
  Machado became a star, but the
  
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• Video shows rescue of baby from plastic bag in Georgia woods

  25-06-2019 21:32
  CUMMING, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia sheriff is releasing dramatic body-cam video showing the rescue of a newborn girl who was found alive inside a plastic bag in the woods.
  The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office made the video public Tuesday in hopes that it will generate credible tips in the case.
  Authorities have been searching for the baby’s mother since June 6, when a family in a nearby home heard her crying in a wooded area in Cumming. Deputies cut the baby out of the plastic bag a
  
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• Alcoholics Anonymous’ ‘Big Book’ collection up for auction

  25-06-2019 21:29
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A collection of 19 first-edition copies of the founding document of Alcoholics Anonymous, known to adherents as the “Big Book,” will be auctioned off in Los Angeles next month.
  The auction house Profiles in History said Tuesday that the collection will be part of a single lot that includes a 1940 stock certificate used at the time to raise funds to continue printing the Big Book.
  The books are signed by the founding members of AA.
  They were collected over a l
  
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• Adopt This Pet: Meet Kaito!

  25-06-2019 21:26
  There is a new pet looking to be adopted, meet Kaito!
  Kaito from the Humane Society of Southern Arizona
  Kaito is a 12-week-old boy and a very playful kitten. He loves to run and chase toy feathers. Kaito does have a medical condition that caused some scarring to his right eye. He would love to find a forever home that would be able to seek veterinary care if any issues arise. However, his medical condition should not stop anyone from adopting the little guy and does not prevent him from having a
  
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• Greece: Turkey’s gas drilling off Cyprus shows ‘weakness’

  25-06-2019 21:25
  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The prime minister of Greece says Turkey’s ongoing drilling for gas in waters where Cyprus has exclusive economic rights is a sign of “weakness.”
  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras warned Tuesday of “grave consequences” for Turkey’s relations with the European Union and for regional stability if the Turkish government persists.
  Tsipras said “everyone knows” that Turkey’s “futile” exploration in waters
  
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• Israel’s SpaceIL says it won’t try second moonshot

  25-06-2019 21:21
  JERUSALEM (AP) — SpaceIL, the Israeli company that attempted but failed to put an unmanned craft on the moon earlier this year, says it will not try a second moonshot.
  The company issued a statement Tuesday saying its lunar mission in April has been widely hailed as “an exceptional success,” despite crash landing on the moon. It says that “an attempt to repeat a trip to the moon is not enough of a challenge” and will instead search for a different mission.
  The Space
  
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• Prosecutors say no criminal charges in Illinois ammonia leak

  25-06-2019 21:19
  WAUKGAN, Ill. (AP) — Prosecutors in northern Illinois say they won’t file criminal charges in connection with an April anhydrous ammonia leak that sickened more than 40 people, including first responders. The (Waukegan) News-Sun reports that the Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Nerheim says his office has determined that no laws were broken in the April 25 incident. Federal officials determined open valves on farm fertilizer tanks led the chemical to leak in Beach Park, abo
  
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• Former Arkansas lawmaker pleads guilty in corruption cases

  25-06-2019 21:17
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A former Arkansas lawmaker who is Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s nephew has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and filing a false tax return, part of an agreement with federal prosecutors in a sprawling corruption probe.
  Former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson on Tuesday also agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy in a separate federal case in Missouri where he’s been charged with accepting bribes from a nonprofit.
  Hutchinson pleaded guilty to filing a fa
  
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• Feds: Rep. Duncan Hunter used campaign cash for affairs

  25-06-2019 21:16
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal prosecutors say U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter of California illegally used campaign funds to finance romantic flings with a series of women, spending thousands of dollars on meals, drinks and vacations.
  Allegations about the married Republican congressman’s affairs were outlined in a government court filing late Monday connected to charges he and his wife misspent more than $200,000 on trips and personal expenses.
  Margaret Hunter pleaded guilty this month to one
  
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• Hayley Wickenheiser headlines 2019 Hockey Hall of Fame class

  25-06-2019 21:14
  Canadian women’s star Hayley Wickenheiser was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in her first year of eligibility.
  Wickenheiser headlines the 2019 Hall of Fame class that also includes former NHL players Sergei Zubov and Guy Carbonneau, Czech hockey star Vaclav Nedomansky and builders Jim Rutherford and Jerry York. Hall chairman Lanny McDonald announced the inductees Tuesday.
  In 79 international games, Wickenheiser recorded 58 goals and 88 assists for 146 points. She won four Olympic gold
  
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• Postal service returning decade-old stolen Hawaii mail

  25-06-2019 21:07
  HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service says it has found mail stolen in Hawaii more than a decade ago. KHON-TV reported Monday that the family of a now-deceased postal worker discovered the stolen mail inside a storage unit and turned them over to officials.
  The postal service says the stolen mail is being sent back in the next couple of days. The mail dates back about 13 to 15 years ago.
  The stolen mail was mostly First-Class and Priority Mail and newspapers and magazines.
  Officials have
  
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• FedEx sues US government over export rules in Huawei case

  25-06-2019 21:07
  DALLAS (AP) — A lawsuit filed by FedEx against the U.S. government over export rules follows a dispute over diverted shipments that were intended for Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecommunications-equipment giant.
  The lawsuit challenges changes to export rules designed to keep technology out of the hands of entities or people that the U.S. government considers potential risks to national security.
  In May, the U.S. government added Huawei to a list of entities and people barred from re
  
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• Louisiana deputy: Suspect confessed to killing 5

  25-06-2019 21:02
  GONZALES, La. (AP) — A Louisiana deputy testified that a man accused of killing five people earlier this year confessed to the crimes after being captured in Virginia. WBRZ-TV reports the Ascension Parish deputy was in court Monday at a hearing for 22-year-old Dakota Theriot. The deputy recalled Theriot saying he shot the victims in “pure, cold blood.” The deputy also said Theriot pointed a gun at officers in an attempt to get them to shoot him when they went to capture him at
  
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• No injuries reported in apartment fire on east side

  25-06-2019 21:00
  TUCSON – Tucson Fire Department crews battled an east side apartment fire Tuesday morning.
  According to TFD, a resident of an apartment located in the 200 block of South Kolb Road near Broadway Boulevard called 911 to report about a fire that started in a unit underneath theirs. Upon arrival, the crews observed smoke coming from the first-floor unit and evacuated nearby residents.
  The fire was contained in 11 minutes, according to officials.
  The apartment where the fire originated wa
  
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• Refinery fire probe continues; no health concerns found

  25-06-2019 20:56
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Officials say it will take some time to determine the cause of last week’s fire and explosion at a Philadelphia refinery, but nothing of concern to public health has been found.
  Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel says investigators haven’t been able to go to some areas at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex because they haven’t yet been assessed by a structural engineer. He also said that even though the fire is out, the incident hasn’t
  
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• Federal judges send census question case back to lower court

  25-06-2019 20:53
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal judges have decided a lower court should be sent back a lawsuit focused on whether a 2020 census question pushed by the Trump administration violates minorities’ rights.
  The Tuesday decision by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals comes a day after U.S. District Judge George Hazel of Maryland wrote that racial discrimination could be the underlying motive to ask everyone in the country about citizenship status.
  The Supreme Court is expected to ultimately decide t
  
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• Former North Carolina teacher pleads guilty to sex charges

  25-06-2019 20:51
  WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A former North Carolina high school science teacher accused of abusing almost 20 victims during his career has pleaded guilty to child sex charges.
  News outlets report the New Hanover County District Attorney’s Office says 50-year-old Michael Earl Kelly entered a guilty plea Tuesday. Prosecutors had filed approximately 60 charges against Kelly, including indecent liberties with a child and indecent liberties with a student.
  Kelly had been arrested in February
  
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• American cardinal severs ties with Bannon-linked group

  25-06-2019 20:50
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — A conservative American cardinal has distanced himself from former White House adviser Steve Bannon and severed ties with a Bannon-linked institute that wants to train future populist leaders in Italy.
  Cardinal Raymond Burke said in a statement on Tuesday that he was stepping down immediately as honorary president of the Dignitatis Humanae Institute because “it has become more identified with the political program of Mr. Bannon.”
  Bannon and the institute lau
  
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• Texas Monthly magazine bought by oil and gas heiress

  25-06-2019 20:49
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A billionaire oil and gas heiress has bought Texas Monthly magazine.
  The Austin-based monthly magazine said Tuesday that its new owner will be Randa Duncan Williams, whose late father founded Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners.
  Williams chairs the newly formed Houston-based entity Texas Monthly LLC, which purchased the magazine from a Houston-based private equity firm founded by Paul Hobby. His family has deep roots in Texas journalism and politics.
  Williams, a
  
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• Illinois court upholds dismissal of suit against Hastert

  25-06-2019 20:46
  YORKVILLE, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois appeals court has upheld a lower court’s decision to toss a lawsuit alleging former House Speaker Dennis Hastert sexually abused a fourth-grader in the 1970s, saying it agreed the accuser filed the suit too late. The (Crystal Lake) Northwest Herald reports the Illinois 2nd District Appellate Court ruled Friday that Hastert had a right to invoke statutes of limitation even regarding “particularly loathsome” allegations.
  The unnamed accuse
  
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• POLL: Do you agree with Arizona Board of Education’s decision to leave the sex education rules the same?

  25-06-2019 20:43
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• Donors pledge over $110 million to help Palestinian refugees

  25-06-2019 20:42
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Donors have pledged over $110 million to help some 5 million Palestinian refugees, an amount the head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees called encouraging.
  But Pierre Kraehenbuehl in an announcement Tuesday after a donor’s conference at U.N. headquarters said: “The situation does remain precarious.”
  The $1.2 billion budget for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency provides education, health care, food and other services to refugees in the West B
  
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• US government investigating poultry price-fixing claims

  25-06-2019 20:41
  CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. government is investigating price-fixing charges against the country’s biggest poultry companies.
  The Department of Justice tipped its hand last week when it requested a temporary halt to discovery proceedings in a 2016 class-action lawsuit filed by food distributor Maplevale Farms.
  Maplevale accuses Tyson Foods Inc., Perdue Farms Inc. and others of conspiring to fix poultry prices between 2008 and 2016. The suit claims the companies shared information and res
  
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• Wrongfully convicted man is killed 13 years after release

  25-06-2019 19:55
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man who spent nearly 12 years imprisoned for a wrongful conviction has been fatally shot, 13 years after his release.
  Jackson police say 44-year-old Cedric Willis was killed Monday on a city street. No one has been arrested.
  In 1994, at age 19, Willis was charged in two robberies. One included a rape and the other a death. DNA testing cleared him of the rape. Though the crimes were likely committed by the same person, Willis was convicted in 1997 of murd
  
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• The Latest: Border official resigns, deepening crisis

  25-06-2019 19:12
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on the fallout over the discovery of children found in filthy conditions at a Border Patrol station near El Paso, Texas (all times local):
  6 p.m.
  About 10 protesters have demonstrated in a parking lot at a Border Patrol station in El Paso, Texas, decrying the treatment of child migrants.
  The demonstrators moved to the station entrance Tuesday afternoon as one waved a placard that invited motorists on a passing highway and frontage road to honk to register support
  
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• AP-NORC poll: Still some extra hurdles for LGBT candidates

  25-06-2019 18:17
  NEW YORK (AP) — A sizable number of U.S. voters say they’d have some hesitancy about supporting an LGBT candidate for president. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds it’s a negative factor for more voters than a candidate’s race or gender.
  In the poll, 32% of registered voters said they would be less excited about supporting a presidential candidate if that person was gay, lesbian or bisexual; 42% said that about a transgender candidate.
  
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• Cypriots mourn ex-President Alexis Christofias at funeral

  25-06-2019 18:14
  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, trade unionists, European communists and politicians and leaders from Cyprus’ breakaway Turkish Cypriot community were among those attending a funeral service for the country’s former president, Dimitris Christofias.
  Hundreds of people thronged the Church of God’s Wisdom in Nicosia, the capital, on Tuesday to pay a final tribute to the Communist-rooted Christofias, who died at 72 on Friday.
  The Soviet-educated Ch
  
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• The Latest: Illinois 11th to legalize recreational marijuana

  25-06-2019 18:13
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on recreational marijuana legalization in Illinois (all times local):
  10:30 a.m.
  Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed legislation making Illinois the 11th state in the nation to legalize recreational marijuana.
  The Democrat signed legislation Tuesday in Chicago allowing residents to purchase and possess up to 1 ounce (30 grams) of marijuana at a time. Non-residents could have up to 15 grams.
  Illinois joins 10 other states and the District of Columbia in allowing recreati
  
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• Pilot killed in NYC crash saw ‘window’ to fly in bad weather

  25-06-2019 18:13
  NEW YORK (AP) — Federal investigators say the pilot killed when his helicopter hit the roof of a New York City skyscraper in rain and fog said before takeoff that radar showed a “20-minute window to make it out.”
  The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that pilot Tim McCormack flew for several minutes June 10 before radioing that he was lost and trying to get back to the heliport but “did not know where he was.”
  Videos on social media showed the helico
  
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